Dennis Quaid fronts docu to promote prevention of medical errors
April 16th, 2010 - 3:31 pm ICT by ANILondon, Apr 16 (ANI): Dennis Quaid is heading a new documentary to promote the prevention of medical errors, three years after his newborn twins were given a drug overdose which almost killed them.
In 2007, the actor’s 12-day-old babies, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace, were left fighting for their lives after a tired nurse working at Los Angeles’ Cedars-Sinai Hospital picked up the wrong bottles of Heparin and gave them near-lethal doses of the blood thinner.
California state regulators ruled hospital staff had been negligent and fined them, awarding Quaid and his wife Kimberly 500,000 pounds in damages in December 2008.
The couple subsequently launched The National Alert Network for Serious Medication Errors system to alert professionals when potentially serious medication errors have been made.
And now, in a bid to take his campaign to U.S. viewers, he has produced and narrated ‘Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Heathcare Harm’.
The actor hopes the show will raise awareness of the issue with the American public.
“If you hit them in the heart, it sets the hands to work. We were really lucky to have a happy ending,” the Daily Express quoted Quaid as saying. (ANI)
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